copin
The verdict
“copin” is uncommon French (frequency #88,487 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,487
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de copain par alignement sur le féminin copine, variante de compagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-copin · copin · French
copin · rank #88,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,487
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conventuelle
Nearest frequency peer: conventuelle (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « copin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contestez
contestez
11,517 corpus weight
- contrebalan…
contrebalancée
11,516 corpus weight
- conventuelle
conventuelle
11,515 corpus weight
- copin
copin
11,514 corpus weight
- correctrices
correctrices
11,513 corpus weight
- correia
correia
11,512 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « copin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | copin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « copin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
copin is uncommon French at frequency #88,487 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de copain par alignement sur le féminin copine, variante de compagne.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for copin in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is copin, spelled C-O-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Variante de copain par alignement sur le féminin copine, variante de compagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how copin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Redevenu pour le poète le copin du collège, l’avoué pensait avec raison que son camarade laisserait échapper, dans un temps donné, le secret de la retraite de David.
Il devait de l’argent à ce copin.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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